Show NORTHERN STATES CONFERENCE COUNCIL BLUFFS Iowa Sept 1894 According to previous appointment i the conference for the N Northern States Statu mission of the Church of Jesus JeBus Christof Christ t of Latter day Saints convened in to the he Huntington Hall HaU at 1030 a W m of at the Elders D F Stout and Wm J Butterworth the former press pi-eal- pi president b dent of the Northern States mission 1 and tb the latter lattu of ot the be l Iowa wa conference conference were present together with the follow n named med brethren Geor George e A Beal n named med brethren Geor George e A ing log Joseph M Jepson Miles F Weaver Jen Jens J Jensen Stephen A Bunker Joshua H Cook Hans J J Neilson Philip J Garn Au Austin Kearns travel travel- traveling traveling ing Elders and of the newly arrived Elders from Utah Chilton Chillon L Miller Joseph Joeeph M Green Joshua R B Clark Fredrick J Christensen Otto John John- son John son SOD Henry L McMullin and George GeorgeA GeorgeA A All AU the Elders spoke during the conk these who bad had been travel travel- traveling travel travel-iaK ing in their different fields of labor reported success in every instance A number Dumber had been added to the Church and a great amount of prejudice had bad been allayed a friendly feeling was M manifested ted for the Elders Eiders in mae most places The newly arrived Elders Elden mani mani- manifested manifested manifested a humility in expressing their belr feelings as to their willingness to perform per per- perform form torm the mission that hat might be as- as assigned aa signed them that wa wan pralle praiseworthy worthy In inthe inthe r rth th the highest degree We were favored with the presence of Charles A Han Hall Hallof ot of Kansas City late president of the church who was waa also at at one time identified with the styled self organized Be-organized church was wae baptized d into the Church of f J Je lul us Christ of ot Latter-day Latter Saints some some time since and on Sunday morning the he be was wal ordained an Elder Eider Elder Bider Hall Han occupied a portion of he be time 06 on Sunday spoke afternoon afternoon spoke on th the condition of the world at the time tilDe of the coming of the Messiah and nd that the world was wal in the same condition oO when the Prophet Joseph Joeeph the aid of at the the- Lord established the great Jatter-d Jatter latter day y work He handled bandIed bi his hie subject in a masterly 3 manner manDer proving himself to be a Biblical Bib BIb- Biblical lical scholar and in pOIl possession of the Spirit of ot God Elder Stout occupied the rest relt of the time Ume of ot the afternoon meeting in anable an aD able and convincing manner Bespoke He poke first on the second coming of the 1 I Savior and proved by numerous quo quo- quotations quotations quotations from the Scriptures Scripture that His Bil coming would be a literal one He also spoke on the Priesthood and j produced many indisputable facts that the Priesthood held by the Elders Elder G of the Church of Jesus Christ of ot Latter Later Latter day day Saints was the esme s me held by the Savior and His Hla Apostles The general U authorities of the Church and those of this mission were pr presenta present present- a ed and unanimously sustained J 1 R lark was wu sustained clerk of the Iowa Oo On Monday President Stout beld held two tw Priesthood meetings meeting at which all aU the Elders spoke those who bad been laboring reported their labors which Elders Stout w was very encouraging and aDd Butterworth assigned a the Elders to their fields field ot of labor Jabor as aa follows For Forthe Forthe the Iowa conference Wm J Butter Butterworth worth and Otto J Johnson for tor Boone Boone county Iowa Miles Milea F Weaver and Fredriek J Christensen for Mills town own Jackson county Wis Wie lens Jens J Jensen and Joseph M Green for Blackbird Putnam county Mo Stephen A Bunker and Austin Kearns for tor Decatur Burt county Neb Joshua H Cook and Henry L McMullin for tor Biglow Holt county Neb Hans Hana J Neilson and George A Whitlock for tor St Johns Stafford county Kansas Philip J Garn and Joshua R B Clark dark On Monday londay night Elder Eider C 0 A Hall HaU delivered a lecture subject The rea rea- reasons reasons sons why I became a Latter day Saint He occupied an hour bour and a ahalt halt half and beld held his bis audience as all if by magic maalo with the exception of one or two tWe interruptions by a Re organizer Re-organizer S Spice will not permit me to write fur ur further lur ther ot of his hie highly Interesting lecture but bat I will say that he left no standing room ro m for the factions Great credit is 18 due Sister Huntington for furnishing r the means with which to make snake the hall ball comfortable for tor the Saints and to Mr F Halladay and wife wire for their labors labore In arranging the hall ball and for tor the great kindness extended to the Elders Elder Chillion Miller will go wi with h President Stout to Taswell in south Indiana and conference will be held beld there on onIbe the Ibe and of at September J B Be CI CLARK Clerk o of Conference I |